NVIDIA’s Fermi launch

NVIDIA is launching their new series of Fermi-based video cards (GTX 470 and GTX 480) today. Due to what we know and have heard up to this point, I think I can safely predict that they will be a major disappointment on multiple fronts. I did read something very interesting on a forum, and so I will steal it and turn it into my own joke here (which makes sense, since my blog is named “Total Rip-Off”).

Ok, so after looking at the benchmarks, it looks like NVIDIA released a stronger performing part than I expected. They definitely got more than 5-10% of a performance increase over ATI’s HD 5870 (more like +15%, give or take). That being said, it is still too hot, too large and expensive to fabricate, and priced too highly for it to be a business success for NVIDIA. Things are looking good business-wise for AMD (ATI), although NVIDIA finally took back some/much of its performance-crown reputation today.